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Staple Crops- a textile fiber crop This was made possible by economic improvement because of the high demand of cotton. It was also because the industrial revolution had just occured and they had just invented the "water frame" and "the spinning jenny" bothused to make textiles, or fabric.

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Q: Why did cotton become the major staple crop of the South after the War of 1812 How was the rise of King Cotton connected to westward expansion?
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